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HELENA, MT - The abrupt resignation last week of Virginia state senator Phillip Puckett sent his fellow Democrats reeling after they lost the slim control they had in the Senate.

Another possible reason for Democrats’ disappointment could lie in the fact that when Puckett faced a serious reelection challenge in 2011, they rallied around him with the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Democratic Party donating $617,000 to his campaign. That was almost half of the entire $1.3 million he raised for that race, and he was one of the top four Senate recipients from those two organizations that year.

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